WMO Year of Polar Prediction, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (YOPP, APPLICATE, SIOS)
Institutions: Norwegian Meteorological Institute
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Synoptic meteorological measurements from BARENTSBURG
extracted from the WMO Global Telecommunication System (GTS).
Data are not quality controlled after extraction from GTS.
Institutions: GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences
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Seismic data recorded by a permanent seismological station located in Spitsbergen. Seismic records can be used for seismological and cryoseismological studies, data is gathered continuously and access is open.
Glacial contribution to eustatic sea level rise is currently dominated by loss of the smaller glaciers and ice caps, about 40% of which are tidewater glaciers that lose mass through calving ice bergs. The most recent predictions of glacier contribution to sea level rise over the next century are strongly dependent upon models that are able to project individual glacier mass changes globally and through time. A relatively new promising technique for monitoring glacier calving is through the use of passive seismology. CalvingSEIS aims to produce high temporal resolution, continuous calving records for the glaciers in Kongsfjord, Svalbard, and in particular for the Kronebreen glacier laboratory through innovative, multi-disciplinary monitoring techniques combining fields of seismology and bioacoustics to detect and locate individual calving events autonomously and further to develop methods for the quantification of calving ice volumes directly from the seismic and acoustic signals.
Arctic Climate System Study of Ocean, Sea Ice and Glaciers Interactions in Svalbard Area (Pol-Nor/198675/17/2013), Sensitivity of Svalbard Glaciers to Climate Change, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education grant no. N N525 350038 and were purchased from the Norwegian Hydrographic Survey under National Science Centre project no. 2013/09/B/ST10/04141, , Ice2sea – Estimating the future contribution of continental ice to sea-level rise. EC Large-scale integrating project No. 226375, FP 7. [2009-2012], the Centre for Polar Studies of the University of Silesia, Poland. (AWAKE2, SvalGlac, ice2sea, CSP)
Institutions: University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences
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Glacier velocities are derived from the displacements of four stakes (Z, R, T, U) installed close to the front of three glaciers in Hornsund. Measurements of stakes position were conducted in 2013-2015, with precise dGPS receiver (Leica 1230, accuracy ±5cm) and single-frequency GPS receiver (Garmin, accuracy ±5m).
Detailed description of the source data and accuracy can be found in:
Błaszczyk M., Ignatiuk D., Uszczyk A., Cielecka-Nowak K., Grabiec M., Jania J., Moskalik M., Walczowski W., 2019. Freshwater input to the Arctic fjord Hornsund (Svalbard). Polar Research, 38. https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v38.3506
Seismic data recorded by a permanent seismological array located in Spitsbergen. Seismic records can be used for seismological and cryoseismological studies, data is gathered continuously and access is open.
Institutions: Kola Branch of Geophysical Survey of Russian Academy of Sciences
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Seismic data recorded by a permanent seismological station located in Spitsbergen. Seismic records can be used for seismological and cryoseismological studies, data is gathered continuously and access is open.
These studies were financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Republic of Poland under terms of the special research grant No. IPY−269/2006 (PL−GLACIODYN), coordinated by JAJ. This work was also supported by the Rector of the University of Silesia (BW−JMR grant for JAJ). The ASTER data were received by the distribu− tion of the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC), by the U.S.Geologi− cal Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center (lpdaac.usgs.gov).
Institutions: University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences
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Inventory of tidewater glaciers delineated from archival satellite images (Aster, Landsat) acquired in the period 1999-2006. Shapefiles have basic information in the attribute table (name, ID, area, length, front type of tidewater glaciers). When a tidewater glacier has a compound basin, only that part of it feeding the calving front was taken into consideration and presented here as the tidewater glacier. This implies that tributary glaciers clearly separated from the main basin by moraines are not included in the database. Similarly, marginal sections of tidewater glaciers that terminate on land are not included in the Inventory.
Detailed description of the source data and accuracy can be found in: Błaszczyk M., Jania J., Hagen J.O. 2009: Tidewater glaciers of Svalbard: Recent changes and estimates of calving fluxes. Polish Polar Research, 30(2): 85-142. http://www.polish.polar.pan.pl/ppr30/PPR30-085.pdf
Institutions: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
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Seismic data recorded by a permanent seismological station located in Spitsbergen. Seismic records can be used for seismological and cryoseismological studies, data is gathered continuously and access is open.
Arctic Climate and Environment of the Nordic Seas and the Svalbard – Greenland Area, Polar− CLIMATE Project – SvalGlac Sensitivity of Svalbard glaciers to climate change, Ice2sea – Estimating the future contribution of continental ice to sea-level rise. EC Large-scale integrating project No. 226375, FP 7. [2009-2012], ERS SAR images provided by ESA (Project No C1P.9630) (AWAKE, SvalGlac, ice2sea)
Institutions: University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences
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Ice front position of the tidewater glaciers in Hornsund was examined during the following periods: 1899–1936–1960/1961–1976–1990–2001–2005–2010. For the period 1899–1990, several archival maps of varying accuracy were used, sometimes difficult to assess. For the period 1976–2010 multispectral and radar satellite images were used. Detailed description of the source data and accuracy can be found in: Błaszczyk M., Jania J.A., Kolondra L., 2013: Fluctuations of tidewater glaciers in Hornsund Fiord (Southern Svalbard) since the beginning of the 20th century. Polish Polar Research, 34(4): 327-352.
Centre for Polar Studies, Sensitivity of Svalbard glaciers to climate change, European Science. Foundation, PolarCLIMATE, ERANET EUROPOLAR [2010-2013], AWAKE 2 – Arctic climate system study of ocean, sea ice and glaciers interactions in Svalbard area, The Polish-Norwegian Fund, Ice2sea – Estimating the future contribution of continental ice to sea-level rise. EC Large-scale integrating project No. 226375, FP 7. [2009-2012]; AWAKE – Arctic Climate and Environment of the Nordic Seas and the Svalbard – Greenland Area, The Polish-Norwegian Fund, project No. PNRF-22-A I-1/07 [2009-2011] (CSP, Awake, Awake 2, SvalGlac, ice2sea)
Institutions: University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences
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The monitoring of the mass balance of the Werenskioldbreen (Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Spitsbergen, Svalbard) in the years 1999-2002 and 2009-2018.
It is calculated on the base of 4 to 9 ablation stakes (depend on year).
The mass balance is determined by conducting field surveys on floating calendar dates (floating-date system).
Data have also been submitted to the World Glacier Monitoring Sevice (WGMS, https://wgms.ch)
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